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Interview With the Assassin | Year: 2002 Classification: Drama Actors/Actresses: - Raymond J. Barry - Dylan Haggerty - Renee Faia The second shooter? Honestly, I think I'm still a bit confused after seeing this movie. Reading the "Extras" helped a bit but I'm still not sure what to think of it. implausible and flawed, but interesting nonetheless it's implausible that the second gunman (if there was one) would have been allowed to live. 'they' would have killed him just as they killed oswald. it would've been too dangerous to do otherwise. what happened in this film proves the point. so a so-called story of the assassin really is pure fiction, even if there was a conspiracy to kill jfk. the film itself is also a little flawed. even after the marine co died (or was killed), there was still the would-be assassin's shooting buddy who could have corroborated the claims. he didn't have to attempt to kill the pres to prove his point. still, an interesting film. worth a rental, at least. Great Historical Fiction Drama Judging by the reviews, it would seem many people have fiction and historical reality confused. This is a work of historical fiction. The best fiction is based on real events. Walter Ohlinger is just a character and this movie, though filmed to look like it's a documentary, is really just a story written and directed by Neil Burger. Burger was in Texas interviewing WW II vets when he met a man in a bar who claimed that he knew people involved in the Kennedy assassination. They conversed briefly and then the man left. Neil never saw him again; but this eerie conversation served as the backdrop for this story. Walter Ohlinger (Raymond Barry), an ex-marine forced recon sniper, comes forward nearly forty years after JFK's assassination to claim that he was the Grassy Knoll assassin. He's dying of cancer and is tired of hiding. He enlists his neighbor Ron Kobeleski (Dylan Haggerty), a cameraman for KXBC News to film his confession. When Ron asks Walter for proof, he produces the shell casing for the single shot he fired from the knoll. Ron asks the lab tech to find out what year the bullet was fired and the tech comes back with a plus or minus five-year answer. This was the only problem I saw in the film. The lab can't tell exactly when a bullet was fired even within a five-year range. Ammunition can be traced according to lot number and the date of manufacture can be found but that doesn't mean that bullet was fired within that five-year timeframe. The technique of making this film look like a documentary was a smashing success adding realism to the story that would not have otherwise been there had they filmed it like a regular movie with music and canned sound effects. If you're a Kennedy buff, see the film! Buy Interview With The Assassin at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Interview With The Assassin Search with the Priority Search Engine on Interview With The Assassin This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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